Vita Sackville-West at 18

A close-up of the painting by Philip de Laszlo (1910) in the Big Room at Sissinghurst Castle. I think it's quite beautiful but she disliked it and it was not displayed in her lifetime.

The Garden of England

September 12th 2013
Sometimes you just need a break, don’t you? The younger generation takes long weekends. Us oldies, well, we take long mid-weeks. This mid-week, our excuse - as if we needed one, was that I’d finally persuaded my good lady to reduce the ever-growing collection of jigsaw puzzles she’d squirrelled away on shelves in our garage and in almost every cupboard and wardrobe in the house. She h ... read more

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